The Best (and Weirdest) of Chicago Theater in 2016
From best demonic possession to best use of root vegetables, Chicago’s theater scene set plenty of new creative precedence this year.
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The Five Best Things to Do in Chicago This Week
Car Town, High School Hoops, Illumination, Nerdette’s Holiday Spectacular!, and The Other Cinderella
Five Things to Do in Chicago This Week
Andrew Bird’s Gezelligheid Shows, Aretha Franklin, Made in Chicago Holiday Market, No Match for a Good Blaster, and Shemekia Copeland
Where to Celebrate New Year's Eve in Chicago
Shows, events, and themed parties that will get you through the last hours of 2016.
The Year’s Best Books About Chicago, by Chicagoans
From a Black Mirror-esque sci-fi mindbender, to a history of a newspaper that changed American history, these books do our city proud.
Why Creative People Should Stay in Chicago and Not Flee to the Coasts
Take it from Austin Vesely, Hebru Brantley, and Andrew Barber—Chicago is the place to be right now.
The Top Five Things to Do This Week
Christopher Wheeldon’s Nutcracker, Mr. and Mrs. Pennyworth, Randolph Street’s Holiday Market, Jerry Seinfeld, and Voices Heard
The Shut-In’s Guide to Winter
Stay warm and entertain yourself with new releases to watch, listen to, and read.
Rites of Passage
Photographer Alyssa Schukar spent the past year documenting the many ways people in this city mark pivotal moments in their lives. Each of the scenes she captured, described here in her words, tells a compelling story.
Chicago's Longest-Running Stage Show Is Ending. Now What?
After a surprising and controversially abrupt end, Neo-Futurists artistic director Kurt Chiang talks the company’s future without its flagship show.